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"Why did I end up here? What the fuck is going on?"
Sun Fei racked his brains but couldn't find an answer. The only thing he knew for certain was that, after hearing that mysterious, cold voice, he had somehow arrived in the world of Diablo and taken on the role of a character from the Diablo game-a barbarian.
The rusty hand axe in his right hand and the round wooden shield with several gaping holes in his left said it all.
In a flash of inspiration, Sun Fei acted almost instinctively, willing something to happen.
The next second, a display resembling a high-tech virtual hologram appeared impossibly out of thin air before his eyes-
Player: Sun Fei Class: Barbarian Level: 1 Experience: 0500 Strength: 30 Dexterity: 20 Vitality: 20 Energy: 10 Attack damage: 3-7 Attack rating: 102 Defense: 11 Stamina: 92 Life: 45 Mana: 10 Fire resistance: 0 Cold resistance: 0 Lightning resistance: 0 Poison resistance: 0
Are these my character's stats in the game?
Seeing his name at the top of the holographic screen, Sun Fei gritted his teeth and couldn't help smiling bitterly. What the fuck is going on? I'd just become king, perfectly fine, so how did I end up in the game world and become a crude barbarian? No, no! I want to be a pretty girl sorceress! I want to be a heartthrob paladin...
Sun Fei rolled around and threw a tantrum in his mind.
Just then, a figure in blue rushed over from the side.
"Hello, stranger. I'm not surprised to see your people here. More and more adventurers have been appearing lately... I imagine you've heard what happened in Tristram... Some say Diablo, the Lord of Destruction, has returned to this world..."
The man in blue prattled on to Sun Fei.
It was Warriv.
As a former die-hard Diablo fan, Sun Fei recognized the man in blue almost instantly from his clothes and what he said-Warriv, one of the NPCs in the Rogue Encampment, a guy who would come rushing over with a lecherous look and a glittering golden question mark above his head whenever a newbie appeared.
As Sun Fei listened to him, he examined him carefully from head to toe.
This NPC's movements and expressions were exactly like a real person's. Even the warm breath from his mouth turned to white mist in the slightly chilly air, and Sun Fei could feel its dampness.
"I wonder if NPCs have intelligence in this world?"
After Warriv finished speaking, Sun Fei deliberately tried asking him a few questions, such as "What's your mother's surname?" and "Where do you live, young lady? How many people are in your family, how much farmland do you have per person, and how many oxen are in the fields...?" But Warriv ignored him, glared at him, and turned straight around and left. His behavior gave Sun Fei no answer.
He thought for a moment and decided to find someone else-Sister Akara.
According to his memories of the game from his previous life, if he remembered correctly, the first quest in the Rogue Encampment, Diablo's first major game map, should be given by this senior sister of the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye. This auntie was also a minor leader and spiritual leader of the Rogue Encampment, so if he wanted to get to the bottom of things, he figured he would have to find an NPC.
The streets were deserted.
Past a few tents and wooden fences, Sun Fei found Sister Akara's little tent behind a crude wooden cage cart. Strange bottles and jars filled the area around it, giving off odd smells, and Akara, dressed in a long purple sister's robe, stood at the entrance.
When Sun Fei walked over, a small golden exclamation mark appeared above Akara's head.
"I am Akara, the senior sister of the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye..." Akara introduced herself unprompted, saying exactly what she had said in the computer game.
Sure enough, at the end of their conversation, Sister Akara gave him a quest.
It was the quest to eliminate the evil creatures in an evil cave in the Blood Moor, exactly as he remembered it from his previous life.
A holographic projection of a red button appeared on the left side of Sun Fei's vision.
He tried opening it with a thought, but found no choice, so he had to accept the quest.
"Honored Sister Akara, may I learn more about this place?"
Sun Fei did his best to choose his words.
He wanted to test whether this NPC had intelligence of her own, hoping the sister could give him some clue as to why he had come to this strange world.
"Young adventurer, you must first complete the quest you accepted before you have the right to know what you wish to know..."
Akara's answer shocked Sun Fei.
That line definitely hadn't been in the computer game he remembered from his previous life... In other words, the NPCs here were very likely to have intelligence of their own, rather than being nothing but rigid computer programs and devices for advancing the plot as they were in the game.
Sun Fei had many more questions, but Akara turned and entered the tent.
Sun Fei discovered that a strange force was blocking him, preventing him from getting within a meter of the tent. After several attempts, he finally decided to give up.
"Looks like I'll have to finish the quest first..."
After trying several other NPCs in the Rogue Encampment and being turned away by all of them, Sun Fei hesitantly walked out through the encampment's gates. He crossed a stone bridge guarded by a female rogue and finally set foot in the monster-infested, perilous Blood Moor.
Just then-
"Attention!! Player Sun Fei, you have entered the first trial area, the Blood Moor. Killing monsters will bring unexpected rewards... And if you fail to complete the quest you received, your punishment will be unprecedented. Hahahaha!"
It was that voice again, suddenly appearing in Sun Fei's mind.
Because it spoke too quickly, Sun Fei only caught the first few sentences clearly. He couldn't remember what the mysterious voice said afterward at all. He did feel that its long laugh at the end was full of schadenfreude, making it seem thoroughly human compared to its earlier cold tone.
Three hours later.
Crack!
He killed his twentieth low-level monster, a Quill Rat, with a chop of his axe. Suddenly, a column of milky-white light descended from the sky and enveloped Sun Fei...
"I leveled up again!"
This wasn't the first time it had happened, so Sun Fei was used to it.
Enveloped in the milky-white light, Beast Sun felt so comfortable he nearly moaned.
Surrounded by the light, the wounds on his body that had still been bleeding from his fight with the monsters two or three seconds ago were rapidly disappearing before his eyes. A magical power spread throughout his body, and the feeling was as blissful as an orgasm during sex.
After four or five seconds, the white column of light vanished.
Two dark red buttons appeared on the left and right sides of Sun Fei's vision: [New character status] and [New skill points]. They were rewards for leveling up.
With a thought, Sun Fei opened [New character status] first.
Each level gave him five points to improve his attributes. Hardly stopping to think, Sun Fei added three points to [Strength] and two to [Vitality], using all five.
He then opened the [New skill points] button and added the one skill point he had gained from leveling up to Axe Mastery.
By now, Sun Fei had raised his barbarian character to level five. During his previous level-ups, he had put essentially all five attribute points he received each time into [Strength] and [Vitality]. Of the five skill points he had gained in total, Sun Fei had chosen to put three into [Axe Mastery] and two into the war cry skill [Howl].
He had distributed them this way because this lifelike world was completely different from the computer game.
As a player, Sun Fei had discovered that he could be injured while fighting monsters. Not only did he lose life when injured, but he also felt one hundred percent of the pain.
More importantly, every monster in this world was so lifelike. They were practically living creatures, not computer programs or source code. Their piercing shrieks as they fell, the gushing blood, the flying bits of flesh, and the thick stench of blood assaulted Sun Fei's fragile nerves at every moment.
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